Posted on 11/09/2021 8:12:15 PM PST by BenLurkin
240 rescuers...from at least eight teams across the U.K. brought up the 40-year-old man on a stretcher Monday to the entrance of Ogof Ffynnon Ddu, also known as the Cave of the Black Spring, 54 hours after he fell.
“The caver was very unlucky here. He’s an experienced caver, a fit caver. And it was a matter of putting his foot in the wrong place,” said Peter Francis, the spokesman for the South and Mid Wales Cave Rescue Team. “He wasn’t in a dangerous part of the cave, it’s just something moved from under him.”
The cave system is located in the Brecon Beacons mountain range in south Wales near the former quarrying village of Penwyllt. It is 300 meters (984 feet) deep, making it among the deepest in the U.K. The cave system is also among the U.K.’s longest, stretching for more than 30 miles (48 kilometers).
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Falling 984 feet into a body of water, having reached terminal velocity, at somewhere between 65-70 mph and who might as well be hitting concrete.
The GW Bridge is about 200 feet and the Golden Gate is roughly the same height.
People take nose dives off these bridge from time to time.
They’re not in too good a shape at all when the cops find them, if they do find them.
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